Recursive function won't compile

[bc1891@googlemail.com]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

def RecursiveFact(n ):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
else:
return 1

fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
print fact

fact = "End of program"
print fact


.......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

[ajaksu]

Re: Recursive function won't compile

On Apr 2, 5:23 pm, bc1...@googlema il.com wrote:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
>
def RecursiveFact(n ):
    if(n>1):
        return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
    else:
        return 1
>
fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
print fact

The output is 822283865417792 281772556288000 0000 and is correct. But
the "#include"s tell me you're a bit confused. Have you tried running
"python yourscript.py" (where "yourscript .py" is the filename you
saved the above program to)?

HTH,
Daniel

[dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.invalid]

Re: Recursive function won't compile

In article <be71dc98-63c0-4a56-80e8-7d83b2d3e882@u3 6g2000prf.googl egroups.com>,
<bc1891@googlem ail.comwrote:

(Subject: Recursive function won't compile)

>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>def RecursiveFact(n ):

>......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

Possibly because it gives the right answer in a different language than
it fails to compile in?


dave

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Re: Recursive function won't compile

bc1891@googlema il.com schrieb:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
>
def RecursiveFact(n ):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
else:
return 1
>
fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
print fact
>
fact = "End of program"
print fact
>
>
......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that chimera?

Diez

[George Sakkis]

Re: Recursive function won't compile

On Apr 2, 5:00 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.w eb.dewrote:

bc1...@googlema il.com schrieb:
>
>
>

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

>

def RecursiveFact(n ):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
else:
return 1

>

fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
print fact

>

fact = "End of program"
print fact

>

......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

>
Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that chimera?
>
Diez

Seems like a bad belated April Fool's day joke to me.

George

[Robbie Hatley]

Re: Recursive function won't compile


"bc1891" wrote:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
>
def RecursiveFact(n ):
if(n>1):
return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
else:
return 1
>
fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
print fact
>
fact = "End of program"
print fact
>
......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

No, no, no. Write that in Haskell instead, like this:


#Switch<C++RTTI >(ON)
#include <stdio.hAND <stdlib.h>
#use FORTRAN_RUNTIME _MODULE but compile_as(Cobo l)
#Incorporate{Pa scalInterpreter } but run_as(Haskell)
use strict;
use warnings;
sub RecursiveFact
{
my $n=shift;
if ($n 1)
{
return $n * RecursiveFact($ n-1);
}
else
{
return 1;
}
}
printf("%d\n",R ecursiveFact($A RGV[0]));


Yep, that there Haskell program should solve these C++
problems you've been having with that Oberon program of yours,
by injecting a bit of Perlescence.


Or just write it in Fortran and be done with it:


/* This is a really lovely Fortran program. */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int RecursiveFact (int n)
{
return n>1?n*Recursive Fact(n-1):1;
}
int main (int argc, char ** argv)
{
printf("%d", RecursiveFact(a toi(argv[1])));
return 0;
}


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[Keith Thompson]

Re: Recursive function won't compile

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets@nospam.w eb.dewrites:

>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>>
>def RecursiveFact(n ):
> if(n>1):
> return n*RecursiveFact (n-1)
> else:
> return 1
>>
>fact = RecursiveFact(3 1)
>print fact
>>
>fact = "End of program"
>print fact
>>
>>
>......but yet it still gives the right answer. How is this possible?

>
Given that you obviously don't use python, but some weird cross-breed
beteween python and C - who are we to judge the semantics of that
chimera?

What do you mean? Aren't these:

#include <stdio.h.
#include <stdlib.h>

perfectly valid comments in Python?

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